Apache and file permissions

Apache, Samba, whatever. I know this much; I go to save something on the server, and it's "Permission Denied". I go to debug a CFMX template and get "Permission Denied."

Enough already. I don't like how users and groups work on Linux. Compared to Windows, Linux is postively stone-age. Windows, you can have multiple groups set up to have access to a given folder. Linux? Ha! Unless I'm wrong, which could be very likely, you get one owner and one group per resource. chmod lets you assign permission to owner/group/world, but that's it for flexibility.

Well, enough whining. I determined my problems with Apache and Samba were indeed due to ownership issues, all my stuff was owned by user "root", group "root".

I created a new "web" group, added myself, root, and others to that group, and I assigned that group to my stuff. Wah-lah, it worked. Ask me what specific command I used, and I forgot. I know I used chgrp and chmod, but other than that, I forget. Not to make too shameless of a plug, but if you pick up Linux for Windows Administrators, it will help a load. It sure did for me.

But I must say, file permissions are pretty rudimentary on Linux. But you know what? If my heart isn't right with Jesus, it doesn't matter about chgrp or chmod.